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But if we keep coming back to scripture to varify or affirm our
mental wonderings, we cannot get far from the truth. Surely
God can cover the slack!!
I see Bill and Jonathan and Lance and Perry and you and me and Iz and Chris and slade and ..... doing this very thing --- returning to scripture to affirm our position. jt: I don't know about God
covering the slack. Mental wanderings can carry us down some destructive
paths... ask me how I know?
and Church discipline appears to be
non-existent in our day so we must be responsible to discern between good and
evil and hold fast to that which is good; Paul warned about wolves in sheep's
clothing (Acts 20:28-31) and some were of their own
selves.
Yes but wasn't church discipline primarily used to deal with rank immorality? The "false prophet" was a danger to the church when he pressed his dogma to the point of division. He was to be excluded for divisivenss. I don't think you are saying that Bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing, although I have heard some strange things about his manner of dress. jt: Paul dealt with the
man having an affair with his father's wife. Peter dealt with Annanias and
Sapphira for lying about money. Paul wrote to Timothy telling him to deal with
those who sinned before all so that they would learn to fear. Our
son-in-law has been conned and scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars by a
person in Church leadership who has done the same thing to two other families
and this person declared bankruptcy last week so the money is probably gone
for good but the problem is still leading singing and teaching in the
Church. This must be a stench in God's nostrils just like perverted
priests in the RCC. These things ought not to be. The pastor takes
our son-in-law out to dinner and gives him printouts of scripture to look
at and meditate on. John
how would you have handled
something like this in your Church? They talk about business and
Church matters having to be separate etc. but our son-in-law never would have
met this person or gone into business with him had he not been at this
particular Church and made such a good showing after the
flesh. His outward appearance is perfection, clean and pressed, brand name
clothes, drives an Expedition; but he has an Amway mindset and the big
break is always on the way - in the meantime he rips off God's
people. Is Church discipline the answer to this?
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